Biography

John Aäsp is an artist, writer and curator who joined RIT in 2015 as the first-ever gallery director for the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences (CIAS). He oversees two on-campus spaces—William Harris Gallery and Bevier Gallery—as well as Gallery r, RIT’s metro art space in downtown Rochester.

John spent the previous eight years as visual arts director and curator for Rockport Center for the Arts on the Gulf Coast of Texas, where he also served as managing director for the Rockport Film Festival. He regularly contributes to Afterimage: the Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, and Glasstire, a contemporary visual art publication based in Houston.

A native Texan, John received his Master of Fine Arts degree from RIT’s imaging and photographic arts program (2006), along with degrees in art from the University of Iowa and communication from Angelo State University.